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Turfgrass Management
This book provides a comprehensive guide to turfgrass science and management, covering plant biology, environmental factors, and cultural practices to establish and sustain high-quality turf.
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What it’s about
Turfgrass Management, Sixth Edition, is the essential text for anyone starting a career in turfgrass science or seeking to master the art of maintaining beautiful, functional turf. This book breaks down the complexities of turfgrass systems, from the fundamental biology of grass growth and development to the intricate interplay of atmospheric, soil, and biotic environments. You'll learn the principles behind primary cultural practices like mowing, fertilization, and irrigation, as well as supplementary techniques and effective pest management strategies. Whether you're managing a golf course, athletic field, or lawn, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the scientific knowledge and practical skills to diagnose problems, implement corrective measures, and cultivate resilient, high-quality turf that meets specific objectives and withstands environmental pressures.
The through-line
- Who it’s for
- The reader is an aspiring or practicing turfgrass manager, student, or enthusiast who wants to cultivate and sustain a healthy, high-quality turf for a lawn, golf course, or athletic field.
- The problem
- The turf under their care is struggling with weeds, diseases, thin patches, and poor stress tolerance, failing to meet quality or performance standards. They feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and uncertain about how to diagnose problems and what actions to take. They worry about wasting money on ineffective treatments and causing more harm than good.
- The plan
- Understand the fundamentals of turfgrass growth, species, and environmental needs.
- Master the primary cultural practices of mowing, fertilization, and irrigation.
- Learn to diagnose and solve problems using supplementary practices and integrated pest management.
- Integrate all practices into a complete cultural system for your specific type of turf.
- The payoff
- The reader confidently manages a dense, uniform, and healthy turf that resists stress and pests. · They can diagnose problems quickly and apply the correct, most efficient solutions. · Their turf is not only beautiful but also provides a safe and high-performing surface for its intended use, whether for recreation, sports, or soil stabilization.
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Additional reading
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business · Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Provides the historical account of the rise of the large, vertically integrated corporation in the 20th century, which serves as the 'pre-fissured' model that the book contrasts with the modern economy.
- The Economic Institutions of Capitalism · Oliver Williamson
Lays out the transaction cost economics framework that helps explain why firms decide to perform activities internally versus outsourcing them, a core theoretical underpinning of the decision to fissure.
- The State of Working America · Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, and Heidi Shierholz (Economic Policy Institute)
The book frequently cites data from this ongoing research project to document the macro-level trends of wage stagnation and rising inequality that form the backdrop for the fissuring phenomenon.
- What Do Unions Do? · Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
Provides the classic analysis of the role of unions in the workplace, which is relevant to the book's discussion of how the decline of unions contributed to the vulnerability of workers in a fissured environment.
- Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998 · Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez
This seminal work on income inequality provides the data showing the 'Great Divergence' in incomes, which the author argues is exacerbated by the fissuring of the workplace.
- Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration · Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
The author frequently cites this foundational work to analyze how gender shapes the migration process, family dynamics, and the different ways men and women participate in work and community politics, which are central themes of this book.
- The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans · Stephen J. Pitti
This book provides the essential historical background of the Mexican and Mexican American presence in the Santa Clara Valley, contextualizing Zlolniski's contemporary ethnography within a longer history of labor, community formation, and racial politics in the region.
- Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California · Ruth Milkman (ed.)
This collection provides a broader context for the unionization efforts described in the book, situating the 'Justice for Janitors' campaign within a wider trend of labor organizing among immigrant workers in California in the 1990s.
- Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture · Miriam J. Wells
This study of labor control and unionization among Mexican farmworkers offers a valuable comparative case from a different sector (agriculture), allowing for a richer understanding of the common challenges and strategies of immigrant labor organizing in California.
- "Good People and Dirty Work" · Everett C. Hughes
This 1962 sociological essay provides the book's central theoretical framework: the idea that respectable members of society tacitly delegate unethical tasks to others and then disavow them.